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Training
We attended the Crew 101 and All-Crew Trainings in May or June before the August walk.  At the All-Crew Training I met Dee and Julie and we got to practice marking by pounding in stakes and stapping signs on with zip ties.

As captain, Gretchen contacted us by phone and email.  We then had a live meeting with her in July where we worked out a couple of basic logistics.

As a team, we were low on Avon 3-Day Walk experience but very talented as individuals.  I was very pleased to meet my team mates and see how intelligent and organized they were.  I was the only one who had walked an Avon 3-Day Walk.  I have 15 years of trailmaster and trail marking experience in volkssporting, but not for the Avon walks.  Paola and Julie had the most knowledge of the roads and areas we would pass through.

Victoria and Kimberly were a mother-daughter team, and Kimberly was pregnant with twins.  Paola and Cheryl were friends.  The rest of us had not met each other before.  We each had our reasons for joining up.  After I walked the DC Avon 3-Day Walk, I immediately signed up for the Seattle crew to continue with the spirit I caught at that walk.
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